Feb 12
Good News: B&N has Deeds of Honor
Posted: under Collections, Deeds of Honor, E-books.
Tags: the book business February 12th, 2015
Deeds of Honor is now available for the Nook direct from Barnes & Noble:
Feb 12
Posted: under Collections, Deeds of Honor, E-books.
Tags: the book business February 12th, 2015
Deeds of Honor is now available for the Nook direct from Barnes & Noble:
Dec 16
Posted: under Background, E-books, Life beyond writing, Marketing, the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, the book business, the writing life December 16th, 2014
Somebody’s going to ask “So why that story and not that other one you mentioned you were writing/had written?” Some decisions were easy. One of the Paksworld stories I was working on came to a halt, hooves stuck in the ground, back up in a hump, neck stretched out, ears flat and would. not. budge. It’s not a failure to thrive: it’s a story telling me I made a mistake, that’s not how it goes, and it’s not going to cooperate until I take it where it wants to go. But it won’t tell me. Eventually, left alone out there in the pasture, it will come wandering up to my mental cabin, climb up the step to the porch, and stomp on the porch. But it didn’t choose to do that before the time I had to have stories turned in, so…maybe next time.
Dec 11
Posted: under Deeds of Honor, E-books, Life beyond writing, Marketing.
Tags: ebooks, the book business December 11th, 2014
Sep 26
Posted: under Collections, E-books, Life beyond writing, the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, the writing life September 26th, 2014
Got a call today from my agent’s office, that the cover copy person is working on cover copy (the enticing description of what’s inside) for the short fiction collection. The cover design itself is “somewhere” having “something” done (I don’t know where or what yet, so the quote marks are just a hint at that.) However, this is progress. Things are moving. No schedule yet and probably won’t be until the cover’s done and approved.
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Sep 18
Posted: under Collections, Contents, E-books, the writing life.
Tags: characters, Contents, the writing life September 18th, 2014
The short fiction collection has a new title: Deeds of Honor. Remember how I said the cover design for the short fiction collection was tentative? It was indeed, and that design has now vanished from mortal ken (well, not exactly…) and a new rough has been shipped out for work. You’ll see it when it’s done. Some things will be the same, and some things won’t. The stories are in the hands of those who will prepare them for the collection. I am alternately working on new fiction (not ready to talk about it yet) and the head-notes for the individual stories, which I should have done in another day or so (the new title has suggested changes in the head-notes.) Read the rest of this entry »
Mar 16
Posted: under Collections, E-books, the writing life.
Tags: Collections, the book business, the writing life March 16th, 2014
Rancherfriend-E, recruited as my editorial assistant on this project, took far less time than I would have to act like a Sorting Hat and divvy up the stories-so-far between the two proposed collections. I made one change about the time she was emailing me “You could do this instead…” and her this and my that were the same. Then I threw a couple of other things into the first group (partly because I wanted to and partly because it would even up the wordage between the two) and she said “Good idea. I think I’ll take a nap now.” Read the rest of this entry »
Aug 25
Posted: under E-books, Marketing, the writing life.
Tags: ebooks, the book business, the writing life August 25th, 2010
When those of you in the UK started complaining about no access to ebooks of my stuff in the UK-European English-language distribution area, I went to Orbit UK, looked at their site, and then emailed my UK editor. (I am lucky to have two great editors right now, Betsy Mitchell at Del Rey and Bella Pagan at Orbit UK.) Anyway, Bella Pagan said she’d look into it, and time passed, and now I know the whole nitty-gritty story, as of her email today.